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ABOUT THE JEDI CHESS ACADEMY
The Jedi Chess Academy is dedicated to providing a unique approach to chess coaching. Our lessons are designed to teach through stories and develop periphery skills such as empathy, calculation, resilience, language, logic, and critical thinking. We believe in the power of chess to unlock the full potential of young minds.
Meet the Academic Team
Coach Jed
Fun. Passion. failure-proof.
As a screenwriter, coach jed has worked on some of the biggest shows from drama (titoudao s2) to children's edutainment (counting with paula s7, i-yo the robot). as a teacher, he has taught in schools at every institutional level for over a decade. As a chess player, he is ranked in the top 2% of chess.com and is a fide-certified school instructor.
All these varied experiences found their way to each other at the end of covid, when he started teaching chess through storytelling. Eventually, designing the curriculum and training the tutors of one of Singapore's largest chess schools. In 2024 alone, Coach Jed taught over 200 students.
in 2025, he decided to launch his company to have the full creative liberty to create a chess syllabus that taught students to love chess, hard work, and even difficult games.
if you think your child (or even yourself!) could benefit from habits of passion, resilience, critical thinking, and emotional regulation, click the button below!
Coach NM Akhmet
Excellence. focus. performance-ready.
Coach NM Akhmet is a fide-certifed senior instructor and a national master of the USA. He was a member of the Kazakhstan National Junior Team and has represented kazakhstan at the World Youth Chess Championship (Spain, 1996), World Chess Olympiad (Turkey, 2003), among other many international tournaments.
He specialises in coaching competitve kids, including a previous U8 Singapore Champion. He also an NUS MBA alumnus, a Teaching Professor at a
University in Kazakhstan, and excellent in cross-cultural communications. All these skills help him to conduct high-level complex chess lessons in interactive and engaging ways.
If you think you're ready to take your chess to the next level, your journey starts with him!
Coach WCM JAX
Empathy. discipline.
The Champion's Mentality.
Coach Jax is a Women’s Candidate Master from Canada, a title she achieved at age 9 after winning the North American Youth Chess Championships (2009), becoming one of the youngest female players to have ever received the title. She has also won the Canadian Youth Chess Championships (2009), represented Team Canada at the World Youth Chess Championships (2009), Pan American Youth Chess Championships (2011), qualified for the World Chess Olympiad (2012), and has competed at numerous other national and international chess tournaments. Her former teammates include GM Eric Hansen, WFM Alexandra Botez, and WGM Nemo Zhou, and is thus happy to see how far chess has progressed in terms of accessibility and streaming.
She transitioned to coaching young kids at age 13, using her plethora of experiences as a competitive youth chess player. Knowing the specific needs of competitive youth players has helped her bring chess to students as young as 5 to compete and win in various national competitions. She also studied at Yale-NUS College and Yale University, graduating with a degree in Chemistry, and currently attends medical school in Singapore. Having worked with kids for 10 years in chess coaching, tutoring, and volunteering in hospital settings, she is confident about instilling patience, persistence, and passion into all of her students.
The Jedi Chess Journey
1,000$Let us create a tailor-made chess programme for your child. We will analyse your child's strengths, weaknesses, inclinations, personality, playstyle, and design the perfect growth plan for them.Valid for 6 months- The Jedi Chess Class
The Jedi Chess Experience (online)
800$Let us create a tailor-made chess programme for your child. We will analyse your child's strengths, weaknesses, inclinations, personality, playstyle, and design the perfect growth plan for them.Valid for 6 months- The Jedi Chess Class (Online)
